New Wags Coupon - 8/22 & 8/23!

Another $5/$20 coupon that is good for 2 days this time! Friday and Saturday! Now I just might be able to finish up my FAR items for the month!

Here's what I might pick up:

Bic Mark-It Permanent Markers - use $3 Coupon here

Here is a moneymaker from SlickDeals:

Durex Play Foam Lubricant .38 oz $6.99
Use the $5/1 Durex Play item Q
Use the $3/1 IVC in the August easysaver book
$1.01 Overage!

Get some RRs:

Buy 6 Ragu/Skippy
Use recent Qs ($1/2???)
Get $4 RRs

Cheerios are $1.99, use $1 printable here = .99

Stock up on Prep H!

Buy stamps!

Buy 5 bags of Dove DARK chocolate (I would do 2 diff. transactions to earn 2 - $1 RRs) = submit for free movie ticket when you buy $12 worth of chocolate (#39 ESR)

Albies Deals 8/20

Sorry, but I only have a minute before I need to clean-up the house for the hundreth millionth time! So a few quick deals from this week's ad.

Albies:

Time to pull out those $2 Ken's Dressings Qs - the spritzer and reg. dressings are $2, so free after the Q!

There is a Kraft/Nabisco promo where when you buy 5 items you get a free Nabisco Snack tray. I need to buy one more All You magazine and then here's what I'm doing:

2 Kraft singles (free after All You Q)
2 Wheat Thins (free after All You Q)
1 Kool-Aid to go (.50 Q from a free sample in the mail)
20 Kool-Aid packets
2 Kraft dressings (free after All You Q)
1 Oscar Mayer hot dog (free after All You Q)

Total = $5.50, I'll get the free snack tray plus there is a Kool-aid catalina going on:

Buy any Kool-aid powdered drink mix product between 8/15 and 9/7:

Spend $6, get $2 OYNO
Spend $10, get $3 OYNO
Spend $14, get $4 OYNO

Otherwise, there isn't that much that I'm jumping for joy for.

I Heart Overage!

Rite Aid #1:

3 John Frieda hairsprays .89 each (used $3/2 Q) = -.33 (Note: if you haven't done the $5 rebate, you can get $5.33 overage!)

2 St. Ives lotions .99 each & BOGO (used 2 $1/1 Qs) = -$1.01

3 BeFine packets $1.99 each (used 3 $5 Qs) = -$9.03

1 Crest $2.99 (used .75 Q and it's FAR) = -.75

1 Infant Tylenol $9.99 (used $1 Q, this is what I really needed, I just used the overage to get it free!) = $8.99

Total = $2.85 and I'll be getting $2.99 back in rebates and I got my expensive baby medicine free!


Rite Aid #2:

Found 3 more John Frieda hairsprays .89 each (this time they scanned both the $3/2 and the $1/1 Qs!) = -$1.33

3 BeFine $1.99 each (used 3 $5 Qs) = -$9.03

4 Trident Extra Care gums $1.49 each (used 2 Rite Aid BOGO Qs and 2 BOGO MQs) = free!

2 Floaties $2.49 each = $5.98 (for my sister!)

1 Dora sippy cup = $6.29

1 Baby Wipes = $1 (my baby decided she was done shopping and spit up on me!)

1 Princess ball = .99

Total = $4.82

Walgreens:

5 Prep H wipes $3.99 each (used 5 $3 MQs and $2 ESC Q - takes $2 off each one -) = -$5.05

4 Crayons .39 each = $1.56

1 Disney Baby boat = $6.69 (I accidently packed our other one!)

Total = $5.68, which I put on my gift card, so no oop!

Free Cards at Safeway + Possible Overage!

Update: Slickdeals is reporting that it is actually Buy 4 cards, Get $5 off - that means overage when you buy the .99 cards! Let me know if your store actually has signs to back this up!

Thanks to Mommy Making Money for the heads-up on this one! Here's the deal:

Buy 5 of the .99 Hallmark cards and get $5 off your order = 5 free cards, no tax even!

I tried it today and at my Safeway it wasn't marked as a promo, but it totally worked! I did it twice! 10 free cards! This deal goes until 9/20, so stock up!

I also scored at Rite Aid and Walgreens with my overages today - I'll post pics and details later!

Overage Opportunities This Week

So, I had another open house and after looking at all the ads, I just wasn't pumped to type up all the not-so-great deals this week. Instead, I'll share some little overage secrets:

Walgreens:

There are Preparation H travel wipes alongside the other Prep H products that are priced $3.99. Go here and print off as many $3 MQs as you would like. Then pull the $2 ESC Q out and you have overage!

Prep H pack = $3.99
MQ = -$3
ESC Q = -$2

Total = $1.01 overage!

Rite Aid:

Today I found the travel size John Frieda hairsprays were on clearance at my store. Use with the $3/2 tearpad Qs:

3 - John Frieda hairsprays = $2.67
$3/2 MQ = -$3
Rite Aid rebate when you buy 3 John Frieda products = -$5

Total = $5.33 overage!

I couldn't find the St. Ives (Elements?) that has a BOGO Q in the paper, so I bought 2 of the .99 St. Ives lotions and used 2 $1/1 Qs = 2 free lotions and $1.01 overage!

The FAR Crest toothpaste has a .75 P&G Q, so that is .75 overage. Plus, FAR items are a great way to hide your overage!

Of course, the BeFine thing is still working - so get them while this coupon still works!

Please remember to be kind to other couponers and make sure to cover your overage with other products and don't go overboard with your purchases, so that the cashiers don't tattle on us for our good finds.

A Few Great Resources...

I totally meant to remind you about these gems last month!


Caregivers Marketplace:

This is just a site where you sign up, then print off a cash back request form for lots of items that many of us buy anyway and you'll get cashback just for submitting receipts. I don't get any kickback for this, I just want to remind you that you could be getting some cash! For example - remember the Nature Made FAR item last month? The Rx Essentials vitamins? Yep, once you have submitted your receipt online you can attach it to your Caregivers Marketplace form and get $1! Same for those Huggies diapers or Pull-ups or Little Swimmers! It's like free money!

NatureMade Wellness Rewards:

While we're discussing NatureMade vitamins...you can enter the codes on the packages and earn points towards really great NatureMade coupons ($5+) - these come in super handy when they are BOGO or a FAR item = $$$$

Grocery Deals 8/13

Albies:

Not alot to jump up and down for, but there are a few things:

I'm super excited about the Buy $10, Get $2 off promo on the Yoplait items:

Here's the best scenario:

Buy 5 Yo-Plus yogurt packs = $10
Automatic $$$ off = -$2
Use 5 - $1 Qs (here, here, here, here, here or from last week's box tops insert) = -$5
Total = .60 for each 4-pack, not bad since that is about what one container usually costs!

There is also a Spend $20 on Unilever products, Save $5 instantly promo:

The most exciting thing is probably the Wisk/All detergent scenario:

Buy 6 Wisk/All = $20
Automatic $$ off = -$5
Use 6 $1 All coupons from here or from this month's All You issue = -$6
or use 6 $1.50 Wisk coupons from 7/13 RedPlum insert = -$9

So, depending on your Qs, you could be paying $9 or $6 for 6 detergents. This isn't as sweet as this deal, but still not a bad stock up price. I had to get a raincheck, since they were totally out of my favorite type for a few weeks - but well worth it in the end!

You may also want to mix in some Wishbone dressing, since that has some .60 Qs out there or Lipton has a $1 Q here or in the May paper inserts (long time ago!)

Albies also has Goldfish crackers BOGO, they end up being 2/$2.49.

Note: If you haven't done your Kellogg's $10 rebate, I might suggest using the Safeway Super Coupons, along with the Albies Kellogg's coupon to get a great deal on some cereal.

The back page of the ad with all of the produce is hilarious - just read the 1 or 2 words under each item (Sweet, Ripe, Juicy Sweet, Solid Head, Good for You) - just made me giggle a little.

Safeway:

Honestly, I'm probably skipping Safeway this week. Looks pretty lame.

If you haven't used up your free 12-pack vouchers from mycokerewards.com, then you could use them this week, since they're B2,G2 free. By the way, mycokerewards isn't offering the free 12-pack vouchers right now, I've heard that it is a cyclical thing, so maybe later in the year it will come back.

I would use the Kellogg's super Qs with the Albies Kellogg's Q, so that you can actually get close to 10 products at the really good sale prices for the $10 rebate.

Walgreens & Rite Aid Runs

Walgreens:

I did the Buy $5 of Pert, Get $5 of school supplies free deal:

2 Pert Plus (used 2 - $3 MQ, plus they are FAR this month) = -1.42

6 Jumbo crayons (yes, these weren't the cheapest way to go about the $5 rebate, but they are going into the goodie bags for my daughter's birthday - sorry to let out the secret!) = $5.94 - $5 rebate = .94!

HP printer paper (used $3 MQ) = .99

Scott TP (used $1.99 Walgreens Q and $1 MQ) = .99

So, after rebates & everything, my total = $1.50 + tax!

Rite Aid:

I scored at Rite Aid!

I found the trial size John Freida hairspray up by one of the registers (used $3/2 and $1/1 tearpad Qs and they are on rebate when you buy 3 = $5) = -$3.63

6 Bic Mark-Its (used 3 - $1/2 MQs) = free!!! So perfect for marking moving boxes!

2 BeFine single use packages (used 2 - $5 Rite Aid Qs) = -$6.02

Fructis Shine Drops (used $1 MQ and they are FAR this week) = -$1

Astroglide = FAR

Total = -$8.60

Read the post below for coupon links and more info!

Another Open House Getting In The Way!

Sorry this is late, but I had to leave the house for another open house...please sell house!!!!!!!

Rite Aid:

Great overage possibility!!! There was a Rite Aid coupon book that came out in the paper today and my Rite Aid had copies of it as well - on page 5 is a $5 Q for Befine Skin Care. The picture above is one of the $1.99 single serve packs. They are located in one of the cardboard display thingies with all of the other new beauty products. The $5 Q works, no problem = instant $3 overage!!!!!!!!

Use your overage on one of the free items this week:

Garnier Fructis Shine Glistening Drops (use with recent $1 Q) = $1 overage!

Marc Anthony Root Touch-Up Kit = FAR (3 Day rebate - only until 8/12)

Personal Lube or Astroglide = FAR

Bic Mark-It Markers (use with $1/2 Q here or from today's paper) = free

I hope you used your $2.25 Electrasol Qs if you had any left since they expired today!

Walgreens:

Nice Band-Aid deal if you buy the Walgreens' kid's coloring book for .99:

Buy 2 Band-aid ultra-strips for $2.99 each = $5.98

Use $1 Band-aid Q from coloring book = -$2

Use 2 - $1 Band-aid MQ from the paper = -$2

Total = $1.98 and you get a $3 RR

Also, I've heard from SlickDeals that the trial size Axe products work for the free movie ticket deal:

Buy 3 Axe products, get 1 movie ticket

Buy 4 Axe products, get 2 movie tickets

(Note: I tried this today and it didn't work, so YMMV! I was able to return them no prob.)

Bic Ultra Pens are 2/$1, so if you don't use the $1/2 Qs at Rite-Aid use them here for free pens.

If you need diapers, then they are one sale for B1/G1 50% off, use with the EasySaver Q for more $$ off (YMMV if you try and use the pharmacy Q on top of it, I know my Walgreens stores all received a memo from corporate saying this was a no-go)

Glade Flameless candles are $3.99 after rebate, so if you have a $5 Q or peelie (I can't find a live link) then this is a moneymaker.

Use the $1.99 in ad coupon for Scott TP with this $1 Q and your TP = .99

Use this HP $3 Q and get some more paper for your printer (that means more coupon printing!!!) = .99

What I Picked Up This Week!

Top Foods:

I bought 10 Kellogg's items for $20 (used 5 - $1/2 Qs) = $15, will send in for $10 rebate = $5

1 Orange Juice $2.99

Used the Buy $25, Get Free Milk Q and so the milk was free!

Total after rebates = $7.99, but I also got a voucher for $20 off my next purchase! Nice!

Albertsons:

Used the 4/$6 Safeway Super Coupon on the Cheerios and 4 - $1 Qs, plus the $1.50/3 catalina Q that printed when I scanned the items = .50 for all 4!

Apple Juice = .99 w/ Safeway Q

Eggs = .99 w/Safeway Q

Pluots = $2.04

Total = $4.52

Rite Aid:

Picked up all the Free after SCR stuff (amazing week!) I'm especially happy about the overage with the Acne Stuff, Olay, and ReNu!

Total after rebates = $1.08 and I'm almost eligible for my $25 Visa Gift Card!

Fun Shopping!

Okay, anybody that knows me knows that I LOVE dress-up! My baby has had a dress-up box since she was 1 month old! So, when I saw this post by Common Sense With Money, I had to check it out. Yep, got a Tinkerbell outfit for $4.99 and lots of shortie PJs!

Here's how it works:

1. Go to ebates.com (sign-up if you haven't already - you get $10, I get $10!), you'll get 4% cash back on your purchase.


2. At ebates, type in Disney in the search bar


3. Go to Disneyshopping.com


4. Click on DisneyOutlet and you'll see the $4.99 PJs and $4.99 Tinkerbell costume towards the bottom. There are lots of PJs to choose from, but only the Tinkerbell and Squirt baby costumes (although I was very tempted by the Nemo toddler costume!).


5. If you spend $50, then you can get free shipping (Code: FREE50), otherwise it is a bit spendy at $8.50 for up to $25. There is a 10% off your purchase code, but it doesn't work with the free shipping code (DREAM10)

A bit spendy, I know, but it's tough to find good PJs and dress-up clothes!

Grocery Deals This Week 8/6

Yep, I know this is late, but my mail lady has it in for me - I swear! On Tuesday I got the Safeway ad (boring), the Top Foods ad and the coupon insert - no Albertsons!!! I kept hoping that somehow the mail fairies would bring me one, alas, no. So I had to go online and look (it's just not the same, I'm one of those folks that likes to flip through it and touch it...) Here's what I see -

Albertsons:

Huge ad, but not so many awesome deals. Their Buy 10, Get $5 back is filled with a bunch of products that seem overpriced or pretty darn snack-foody to me. It does make it pretty easy if you're trying to do the Kellogg's $10 rebate deal, since you can buy 10 Kellogg's products and get the $5 off. Still paying $20 bucks...so, I may have to skip it.

I do love free yogurt! Darigold is .50 and there are $1/2 Qs from 2 inserts ago. Woo-hoo!

I've heard mention of the Ken's Lite dressings being $1, so depending on your Albies (you may be able to get overage with the $2 Qs from last week's insert). Anybody know if this one is true?

Safeway:

I was able to use Safeway's 4/$6 Cheerios Super Coupon at Albertsons with these $1 Cheerios Qs = .50 a box. You can also use these $1 Qs on regular Cheerios as well. Not awesome, but since I do the self-check I got a $1.50 catalina coupon that I was able to use on this order as well, making it .50 for all 4 boxes!!!

Kinda bad when the only great deal I can find is to take their coupon to another store!

Oh, not sure what's up with this crazy ad - but Tava is marked 3/$9, but then it says 3/$5 really small in the corner??? If that is true then you can get a great deal with this $1.50 printable here, here or here. Also, this is the deal where I scored at Safeway when I had a raincheck for this price and it was part of the Summer Promo.

Top Foods:

They've got a pretty interesting Kellogg's promo going on - Buy $20 (10 Kellog's items), Get $20 voucher for your next shopping trip. You could buy $20 worth of stuff, send in for your $10 rebate = $10 total, plus $20 off your next purchase. Not too shabby!

I also like their free milk with your $25 purchase Q. I might partner that with the Kellogg's promo or just take it to Albies :)

Free Dannon yogurt here too with the $1/2 Q.

Let's Talk Coupons!

Okay, I have no idea how I missed it the first time...but I got the Kellogg's insert in this Sunday's paper! The awesome part is that it includes a $10 mail-in rebate when you buy 10 Kellogg's products in one transaction. This goes really well with the Kellogg's deals at Rite-Aid and Walgreens this week. If you don't feel like doing the drugstore thing, I checked over at Hot Coupon World and Albertson's will be doing a buy 10 items, get $5 off thing and guess what's included - Kellogg's products! Perfect! You'll have to wait until Wednesday (which isn't a big issue because the rebate doesn't start until tomorrow 8/5 anyway)

Also, I'm excited about the Buy $5 worth of Pert Plus/Sure products and $5 of school supplies $5 mail-in rebate. This should go wonderfully with the FAR Pert at Walgreens.

Grab the Ken's dressings $2 Qs too because this often goes on sale for $2 or less = free dressings!

What coupons are you guys excited about this week?

Deals This Week 8/3

Rite Aid:

So fun this week! I already went and did a quick freebie run!

Free After Rebate:

Bausch & Lomb ReNu Solution twin pack - use with this $1 Q - page 6 - to make $$$ (note: this coupon scanned as a free bottle and asked the cashier to enter the full price of the item could mean a double freebie for you! I told her to enter what she thought was right.)

Olay Skin Cleanser - use with $1 Q in P&G insert this week = $$$$

Revlon Nail Enamel - use with the $1 or $2 Revlon Qs (these do beep, so YMMV whether your cashier thinks that nail enamel is a Revlon color product.)

Nature's Cure Acne Treatment - use with this $2 printable = $$$$

Charles Worthington Results Hair care (only 3 days!!!!) - I looked for the $2 peelie that I'd heard about, no luck, but I did find a bonus pack with free leave-in conditioner!

Gillette Men's Shampoo - you have to use the $1 P&G Q to make this FAR

Gillette Fusion Razor - you have to use the $4 P&G Q to make this FAR

Clairol Nice N Easy - you have to use the $2 Q to make this FAR

Soft White Light Bulbs

Noxzema or Old Spice Disposible Razors (I've heard that some of the Old Spice ones have peelies for free shave cream, I wasn't that lucky! Unfortunately, the Noxzema free mail-in rebate expired 7/31, bummer!) -Thanks Erin for the reminder on this one.

Other Deals:

Stayfree, Carefree and O.B. are $1.99 after rebate and fit into the Buy $25, Get $10 Visa Gift Card rebate (#59). Use with the recent $1.50 off O.B. or BOGO Stayfree Qs.

Also, Monistat Soothing Care products are $4.99 and fit into rebate (#59) as well, if you are one of the lucky ones who got $4 Qs in the paper a month ago, use them! Otherwise you can use this $2 printable - page 6 - or the $3 Qs from the paper a while back.

Walgreens:

.09 School Supplies make great fillers if you have too many coupons.

Kellogg's Cereal is 4/$10 with a $5 RR. Good opportunity to roll your Olay RR.

Buy $10 worth of Kellogg's items, get $5 RR. You may be able to use your Safeway Olympics booklet coupons on the Special K stuff. I think those are MQ.

BOGO Stride Gum (isn't there are BOGO Q for this?)

Glade Fabric and Air Odor Eliminator is $1.49 after ESQ and here is a $1.50 printable = free!

Free Film Developing on Wednesday with in-ad Q.

Of course, my Scrubbing Bubbles and Ink Refills are on sale now. Err! Should have checked!

There is a Buy 4, Get $4 RR or Buy 8, Get $10 RR promo for the following items:

Softsoap refill
Irish Spring bar soap
Softsoap or Irish Spring body wash
Colgate toothpaste
Mennen Speedstick
Colgate toothbrushes

There aren't great coupon match-up with these items to make it worth my while, but if you need any of the items or just want to roll some RRs...

Safeway:

Finally some good Super Coupons!

I will be taking the 4/$6 GM Cereals coupon over to Albies to price match and use with my $1 off Cheerios Qs that I've got from this deal = Cheerios for .50. Not bad when you've got a baby in the house who loves Cheerios!

Also nice:

.99 Eggs
.99 Apple juice

Walgreens' $5/$20 Coupon Glory!

Here's how I did:

4 bags of Hershey's Bliss (not shown because I gave them away! Used 2 BOGO Qs and 2 $1 Qs and $1 ESQ + $5 ESR) = -$4
3 Olay Body Washes (found more $2 and $1.50 MQs) = $5 + $3 RR
1 Walgreens Lightbulb (FAR) = $0
1 Water Filter (FAR) = $0
1 Inkjet refill = $10
2 Tuf Garbage bags ($5 ESR) = $5
2 BioInfusions Conditioners (FAR) = $0
2 Walgreens mouthwashes (BOGO) = $3.29
1 Vacuum bag (FAR) =$0
1 Scrubbing Bubbles Starter Kit (used $2.75 MQ, $1.50 ESR, TMF Rebate form) = -$4.25
2 Scrubbing Bubbles Shower Cleaner Refills (used $2/2 MQ, $3 ESR) = $4
4 Band-Aids (BOGO, plus used $1 Coloring Book Q and 4 - $1 MQs) = -$2

All in all, I saved $119.75 and made $12.06! Not bad!